

Well, learned something new about wordpress while I was moving content from my old site and turning it into pre-dated entries in this blog … don’t EVER forget to put a title in the post. You can go back and add the title, but it doesn’t update the permalink, and it can’t find the post. Page Not Found…
I’ll be pre-dating some of the content off my old site as I move it over here. If you see my inauguration message and wonder why there are older posts, now you know.
Somehow, it’s fitting that I inaugurate this design revamp and the new blog on…
…St. Patrick’s day!
So I hereby dedicate this blog to web development, graphic design, fine art and some down and dirty practical css theorycrafting, all in the name of a good Irish Porter.
No really! Go get yourself a cold one! I’ll wait. *wink*
The Keepers of Stromgarde’s site went through several iterations, on multiple versions of phpbb and the CMS MX-Publisher. I was responsible for two of them, from initial concept through custom theme and maintenance. I also created the guild’s logo.
The first screenshot below is actually the more intricate of the two versions. The parchment boxes are designed to be flexible, using multiple graphics in nesting backgrounds (this was before CSS progressed to the point where you could have multiple graphics in the same background, but uses the same principle). I created all the graphics from scratch using only programs that were available freely online (mainly gimp) as this was before I had my own copy of Photoshop.
